[Olog-hai]

These guys are going to put the Onion out of business with stories like this. The NYT seriously investigating Wen Chia-p’ao and his family? Come on.

[stanne]

Is that the best excuse they can come up with?

[Gene Eric]

Excellent source of counter-espionage.

[SpaceBar]

That would be like a thief drilling a hole to siphon out the contents of a sewage tank.

[capydick]

The NYT seriously investigating Wen Chia-p’ao and his family? Come on.

Because the NYT supports the Chi-com model, they probably think they are immune to this kind of thing - useful idiots on a grand, publicly traded scale....

[Paladin2]

The NYT needs to just go down to the Hudson and head out on the latest garbage scow.

[GeronL]

all they had to do was ask, imagine treating your friends that way

[Political Junkie Too]

I'm waiting to read that in a show of multi-cultural support, and to not appear racist, the NYT is giving their passwords to China so they don't have to go through the shame of "hacking" into evil Big-News corporations just to compete on a "level playing field" for their "rightful" gains.

-PJ

[grey_whiskers]

Gee, what does the Chairman Mao-worshipping Thomas Friedman have to say about this? /sarc>

Cheers!

[Berlin_Freeper]

Chinese were looking to learn how to best issue State propaganda.

[TrueKnightGalahad]

If Chinese Communists took over the NYT, would anyone notice?

[Rocky]

It’s more likely that the Times is planning to release secret U.S. information and the Chinese didn’t want to wait for publication.

[Right Wing Assault]

Next thing you know, they’re going to claim the chicoms put a bunch of commie propaganda in the paper.

But how could we tell?

[Conspiracy Guy]

This is not news. The Chinese hacked the NYT 40 years ago.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The Chinese were allegedly pleased to find some of Mao’s speeches on Pinch Sulzberger’s hard drive.

[SeminoleCounty]

Well...keep supporting Free Trade with Communist China...and get more fun stuff from the Communist Chinese

[nuconvert]

from Wiki:

In October 2012, The New York Times reported that Wen’s relatives have controlled financial assets worth at least US$2.7 billion during his time as Premier.[54]
In response, a Chinese government spokesman stated that the report “blackens China’s name and has ulterior motives”, and the websites of The New York Times were censored in mainland China.[55]
Lawyers representing Wen’s family also denied the report’s content.[56]

Wen personally wrote a letter submitted to the Politburo Standing Committee asking for an investigation to the claim and willing to make his family asset public. Professor Zhu Lijia, of the Chinese Academy of Governance, suggest that this is Wen’s last try to push the passing of the “Sunshine” law, which require government officials to release their financial information to public.[57]
Professor Jean-Pierre Cabestan of Hong Kong’s Baptist University questioned the timing of the report and suggested “It looks very much [like] some people close to Bo Xilai are trying to throw mud at the reformists”.[58]

[GOPJ]

The NYT seriously investigating Wen Chia-p’ao and his family? Come on.

If the New York Times is looking it's because their dem contacts ( dare we call them "handlers"?) have a shakedown angle...

Some editor has made the call that even though the dem handler has an agenda giving him this information - on balance it's a good story.

I believe that call is made many times a day in the MSM which is why the press has become a joke.

[kevkrom]

“Hacked” as in correctly guessing reporters’ and editors’ passwords being “Obama2012”.

[bmwcyle]

When was that hack, 1960?